Product Summary

Cold drawn carbon seamless steel pipe is a steel pipe which is made of carbon seamless steel experiencing the process of cold drawn.

Cold drawing is a metal forming process whereby a piece of metal is forced through a single or series of dies, thereby reducing the cross section size of the original part. The cold drawing process yields a dimensionally consistent final product, while improving both yield and tensile strength.

Steel pipe has been produced for about 150 years. The pipe sizes that are in use today in PVC and galvanized were originally designed years ago for steel pipe. The number system, like Sch 40, 80, 160, were set long ago and seem a little odd. For example, Sch 20 pipe is even thinner than Sch 40, but same OD. And while these pipes are based on old steel pipe sizes, there is other pipe, like gold-flow cpvc for heated water, that uses pipe sizes, inside and out, based on old copper pipe size standards instead of steel.

Steel pipe is a building material made from an alloy of iron and carbon. It is widely used in the construction industry, but can also be found in a variety of manufacturing and industrial applications. In plumbing systems, steel pipe can be used to transport liquids and gases for commercial and residential buildings, as well as in municipal water supplies.